Overexpression of the mexC-mexD-oprJ efflux operon in nfxB-type multidrug-resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 713-725

  Poole, Keith ^a   Gotoh, Naomasa ^b   Tsujimoto, Hideto ^b   Zhao, Qixun ^a   Wada, Akihisa ^b   Yamasaki, Tetsuo ^b   Neshat, Shadi ^a   Yamagishi, Jun Ichi ^c   Li, Xian Zhi ^d   Nishino, Takeshl ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DAINIPPON SUMITOMO PHARMA CO LTD   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; LACZ GENE; MEXC GENE; MEXD GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NFXB GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPRJ GENE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

CHYMOTRYPSIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN OPRJ; PROTEIN OPRK; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EID: 0242648332     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.281397.x     Document Type: Article

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